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Letters Patent No. 99,080, dated January 25, 187 0; antedated January17, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN COIRKEXTRACTORS The Schedule referred to in these LettersPatent and making part of the same.

To whom it may concern:

' the hand of the operator by a broken bottle.

The accompanying drawing is a perspective view of my device, with thescrew inserted in the cork, which, with the neck ofthe bottle, is shownin section.

4A B C is a corkscrew, which differs from one of customary form only ina somewhat greater length of stem, B.

lhis stem B is cylindrical, and is capable of eithr sliding or rotatingin the tubular standard D, terminating in two bow-legs, E E.

A bracket, F, extends vfrom the upper end of the standard, whichreceives and holds the pivot G of a bent lever, H I, whose shortarm I isof cam-form, and has'a slot, z', which embraces the stem, so as toenable the cam-surface of the arm to bear upward against the handle C ofthe screw.

The opening between the legs E E should, of course, be sufficient toallow the passage of an ordinary cork.

The pivot G is set a greater or less distance to one side of the stem B,according to the leverage-power desired, and is preferably set but ashort distance, so as to afford a powerful leverage.

The operation is as follows:

The instrument being-applied to the neck of thev bott-le, in the mannerrepresented in the drawing, the screw is inserted in the ordinaryway,..so as to depress the short arm ofthe cam-lever, as shown. The corkis then extracted, by simply depressing the long arm H' of the lever, asshown by the red dotted lines.`

It will be seen that this instrument is light, compact, portable, andinexpensive, and can be easily carried in the pocket.

I claim herein as new, and of my invention- 'The portablecork-extractor, composed of the following elements, to wit, the screw ABC, tubular and bifurcated standard D E E', and bent and slotted camleverH I t', the whole heilig formed and arranged as described. l

In testimony of which invention, I hereunto set my CHARLES GOOCH.

hand.

Witnesses i GEO. H. KNIGHT, J AMES H. LAYMAN.

